January goals
- Finish tablet woven band, it’s very tiny and will take a while, start another? – worked on it!
- Crochet something? maybe mittens or socks – started mittens!
- Warp on new big loom project – Navajo Churro handspun yard for plaid twill for a big pillow – warped on and weaving!
- Spin stuff – just started spinning grey romney fleece combing waste that I carded, want to spin something else next – finished the combing waste, spun 6 of 8 oz of grey/blue/black targhee roving, plyed the 30oz of romney fleece and the carded merino
- Finish processing alpaca fleece – done! in a bin for storage
- knit sweater – worked on this until I messed my left wrist up by shoveling wet snow followed by kntting then landing oddly on that wrist then shoveling more snow. not smart but it’s almost recovered
Mittens from Moorit Magazine Issue 1, really great patterns, I’m working from a chart. Going to start the second one shortly so I don’t end up with only one mitten.
Weaving! It’s taking a long time to weave each repeat because I only have one boat shuttle so the others are on dowels. But it’s nice weaving. I also bought two books for weaving with 4 shaft looms so I’m pretty excited about all of the possibilities.
30oz of Romney fleece plyed! it’s a 4 ply so I can get some actual thicker yarn. I need to skein and wash it, hopefully will poof up some more. Earmarked for a cardigan/hoodie/gansey. Not sure on pattern yet but something nice.
Carded Merino rolags that were chain plyed to keep the colors together. Chain plying will never be my favorite but it was fine.
And an alpaca fleece all carded up!
February goals
- Spin something after the current project (and skein, ply and label all the yarns sitting around)
- finish tablet weaving project
- start processing a fleece
- crochet on the mittens
- weave on the plaid
- knit sweater